I went to the Brickyard Sunday and used my scanner for the first time.

What I learned:

Bring your regular antenna and leave the stubby home. I had to hold the
scanner up to get consistent reception.

So, I set it up to scan 5 banks containing the drivers I was interested
in and set each banks priority to the driver I liked the best.. This
did not work well. I was listening to MRN and when ever something
happened all the drivers went to their radios and all that jumping made
it impossible to follow anything. I missed the MRN play-by-play and
when the scanner switched to a driver's radio, I only heard bits and
pieces.

What I did instead:

Removed the channel priorities and I did not scan. I entered [HOLD]
[CH#] {HOLD] and listened to MRN only. When something happened or if I
saw a driver in the pits that was having trouble, I went directly to
their channel [HOLD] [CH#] [HOLD] and listened in.

For instance, Jr's car was bad and when a caution came out, I wanted to
hear what they were going to do. Jr said that he wanted "a full spring
rubber put on the right-side and some tape added to the grill."

It was worth it, especially at Indy where you cant see the race anyway.

Rick